Friday, March 20, 2026

Ranking the NCAA Teams

Here's the KenPom rankings of teams in the men's NCAA basketball tourney. Takes each team's offensive ranking and defensive ranking. More weight to the offensive ranking, otherwise the lowest total of the two makes for the highest ranked team. 

Saw another tweet advising to stick with the top seeds more this year than ever, for similar reasons. Now Twitter's got these prognosticators in my algorithm, so I'm seeing even more of these NCAA tweets.

I used these rankings to pick my NCAA bracket, which called for just 2 or 3 upsets a long the way. My Final Four was Duke over Florida and Arizona over Michigan, with Duke winning the whole thing.   

First time I've ever been to a betting website. Had to take a shower afterwards. 

BetMGM updated KenPom rankings for the NCAA tourney

The number after the school name is the total of the offensive and defensive rankings. If two numbers, its the offensive rank first, then the defensive rank. 

1 Duke 6

2 Michigan 9

3 Arizona 8

4 Florida 15

5 Houston 19

6 Iowa State 25

7 Illinois 29

8 Purdue 38

9 Michigan State 37

10 Gonzaga 38

11 Vanderbilt 36

12 UConn 41

13 Virginia 43

14 Nebraska 62 

15 Tennessee 52

16 St Johns 66 don't pick 

17 Alabama 70 

18 Arkansas 58  

19 Louisville 45 

20 Texas Tech 45 

21 Kansas 57 10 don't pick

22 Wisconsin 62 lost to High Point

23 BYU 10 57 

24 St Marys 43 19 

25 Iowa 31 31 

26 Ohio State 17 53 lost to #43 TCU

27 UCLA 22 54 

28 Kentucky 39 27 don't pick 

29 UNC 32 37 lost in the first round 

30 Utah State 28 44 

31 Miami 33 38 

32 UGA 16 80 lost to #41 Saint Louis 

33 Villanova 41 35 

34 NC State 19 86

35 Santa Clara 23 82 

36 Clemson 71 20 

37 Texas 13 111 

39 Texas A&M 49 40 don't pick

41 Saint Louis 51 41 upset #32 UGA 

42 SMU 26 91 

43 TCU 81 22 beat #26 Ohio State

46 VCU 46 63 

49 South Florida 58 48 

52 Missouri 50 77 don't pick 

54 UCF 40 101

64 Akron 54 113 

68 NcNeese 91 47 

71 Northern Iowa 153 24 

88 Hofstra 89 96 

92 High Point 66 161 

107 Cal Baptist 

109 Hawaii 207 42 

113 N Dakota State 124 123 

140 Wright State 117 194 

143 Troy 141 166 

145 Idaho 176 136

159 Pennsylvania 215 112 

162 Georgia Tech 197 131 not in tourney

163 Kennesaw 144 195 

181 Queens 77 322 

187 Tennessee State 173 212 

190 Furman 200 182 

192 Siena 208 175 

216 Long Island

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